NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #42

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Issue #42 - November 19, 2001
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Release status
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Beta 4 is out, waiting for beta 5
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=193106&listName=nbdev
Check the bug count status here
http://qa.netbeans.org/bugzilla/graphs/summary.html

Towards next release:
Yarda has started work on next release infrastructure
(read his "Infrastructure: features.xml")
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=189429&listName=nbdev

Discussion
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And also openide-dev is starting to discuss next route in the APIs:
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=189781&listName=dev
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=190802&listName=dev

Several people took part in this Looks discussion:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=189397&listName=nbdev

Tim has started discussion about the runtime tab
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=185982&listName=nbui
and the discussion is still active on nbui.

Quite a long discussion about whether our property sheets are
nice (and sufficient) on nbui was started by Andrew DeTorres
and already have several subtopics.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=189141&listName=nbui
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=189063&listName=nbui

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